How Does Logisticare Justify Contract?

Is there so much pressure on picking up and dropping off patients that patient safety has been sacrificed?

What about the training, monitoring, and supervision of the actual transportation providers?

Has that changed, and if so, how?

The county of Riverside, California has recently put out to bid a non-emergency medical transport (NEMT) contract which explicitly lays out safety and training requirements, and would be a great example for the state of Maine to follow. Until safety and training is measured as a criteria for winning these government contracts companies like Logisticare will not begin monitoring its providers for such services.

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A tragic, and completely preventable, accident happened in West Memphis, Arkansas, this Monday when 5-year-old Christopher Gardner, Jr died after being left in a van belonging to Ascent Children’s Health Services.

Four Ascent employees have been charged with manslaughter in connection to the child’s death, but the transportation broker, #Southeastrans, continues to be responsible for getting children to Medicaid-funded therapy at Ascent West Memphis. Southeastrans is subject to a 13-point corrective action plan, but it is unclear at this point what consequences it will face should it fail to perform as required.

Sadly, Southeastrans continues to operate largely without consequence for the negligent, and at times grossly negligent, behavior of its transportation providers. Southeastrans is a non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) broker. These brokers frequently look to avoid responsibility for their transportation partners’ negligence by claiming they merely provide training, and not the actual transportation. However, #NEMT broker training and supervision is clearly insufficient if these preventable accidents keep happening. ...